My music is a luxury.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I’m an iPod person.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

Disneyland is a show.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

The first wealth is health.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.